Quoting: rea987

Quoting: slaapliedjeFun thing about non-x86 architectures is all of the open source reimplementations for games can now be played on them (for the most part. I don't expect anyone to have the hardware to run OpenMW on an Amiga...)

Later iterations of AmigaOne look to be par with minimum requirements of OpenMW; especially AmigaOne X1000 and AmigaOne X5000/20.

• X1000: 1.8 GHz Dual-core PPC CPU + AMD Radeon HD 6000 GPU


• X5000/20: 2.0 GHz Dual-core PPC CPU + Radeon HD R7 250 GPU

I have been tempted so many times to order an AmigaOne X5000... but now they are kind of hard to find a full one in stock.

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Quoting: GuestI wonder if the Steam Deck is going to be a great success if Mr. Sweeny would change his mind. Just give it some time Linux is the future of gaming, we are seeing the change, keep in mind android (while heavy modified) is still Linux.

Just question yourself this:

Why can't tripple A studio's make things work on Linux with a 100+ employers studio's, while an single indie developer can make there game enjoyable and perfectly work with either Proton or even Native.

Example: Splitgate the "equ8" AC isn't build for linux but they managed to get it working for Linux without issues. And there are more examples, instead of investing is "Epic Exclusives" they should put there money in evolution.

In all honesty... it seems to me that there is a potential of MS getting a sniff of some companies considering releasing ports to Linux (and even macs) and decide to pay to make them Windows Exclusive. It literally happens everywhere for consoles and has since their inception. Why not in the PC realm?

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So in the Linus video, he shows the Dead Cells FPS. I'm curious if he ran the native version or running it through Proton?

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Quoting: Lightkey

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: slaapliedjeFun fact, Heretic II also got a commercial port on the Amiga.

Yep, for Hyperion Entertainment making Linux and Mac ports was always a side hustle, with the Amiga being their one true love.

Ha, for me the topic of building a Retro Linux computer would be to put together an old PPC mac and install Debian :P
Or you know, maybe try to put 68k Debian on my Amiga :)

That's exactly what I did back in 2005. Bought a cheap Mac mini and installed Debian on it, to show off the rare commercial ports to Linux/ppc from Loki and LGP at the Holarse booth at the LinuxTag fair.

Ooh, I have most of the Loki ports, but did not know they did some PPC ones.

I've actually tried tracking down a physical copy of Heretic II for the Amiga, still haven't been able to find it anywhere. I do wish somehow that Steam would get all the Loki/LGP ports somehow; as Shadowgrounds and a few others don't have native Linux support in Steam, even though Loki/LGP did fantastic ports on them.

Fun thing about non-x86 architectures is all of the open source reimplementations for games can now be played on them (for the most part. I don't expect anyone to have the hardware to run OpenMW on an Amiga...)

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Quoting: Doc Angelo

Quoting: Alm888User's access to kernel is a 0-level vulnerability in the "trust-chain". That is why WINE/Linux is not, and shall never be treated as "secure" platform. All hopes that a "client-side" anti-cheat will be a thing on WINE are just pipe dreams.

Is there anything that can be considered a secure platform, where nothing can be loaded before the anti-cheat is loaded?

I still remember the day when we thought all copy protection / DRM checks wouldn't work through wine. You had to download a NoCD crack from some shady ass website to get Wine to work with a lot of games...

Guess what? Most just work now, you can legitimately take a CD based game like Pool of Radiance; Ruins of Myth Drannor, put the CD in, install it via Wine, start the game up, and it'll ask for the second disc, and pop that in and mount it and the game will launch and run just fine!

So never say never... for the Anti-Cheat stuff, something like Flatpak, where it sandboxes the entire app away would be a method to use on such things.

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Quoting: crt0megaAs much as I'd love to say fsck Tim and Epic, I can't blame him on this one.

I still say fuck that dude. Somehow Epic went from one of the few companies supporting native Linux gaming to absolutely hating on them. While Unreal Engine is ported and works great on Linux, there still are far too few Unreal Engine games ported to it natively.

Thing about Anti-Cheat and kernels... well why does it even need kernel hooks? That seems kind of scary to me, if the anti-cheat crashes, it's more likely to take the kernel with it. Even if they insisted on that, couldn't they use a dkms style kernel module that does it? Granted it isn't like most users would know how to install such things... and I think that's what it comes down to, is they want root access to your system to install a game, and he knows damn well most Linux users are going to basically say what I just said, 'Fuck off, Tim.'

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Quoting: no_information_here

Quoting: areamanplaysgameI keep giving KDE another chance every few months, but it's just never been a good experience for me. I love a lot of the KDE ecosystem, but for some reason basic stuff that just works in GNOME, like pairing a Bluetooth gamepad or, like, playing audio in Firefox, does not work in KDE on the same machine for no reason I can easily discern. And then, when I go back to GNOME, I have to spend extra time fixing the stuff KDE broke that it shouldn't have been able to break.

As mentioned above, you cannot judge KDE if you installed it over top of a default Gnome setup. This is true the other way around, too.

They both do things to various settings, like mime types for programs. Though KDE seems to be a little worse at 'oh, you loaded me last, I'm changing your settings!' than Gnome does. Example of this is Okular, log into KDE, open something that opens Okular. Log out, log into Gnome, your default PDF viewer will now be Okular. If you change it to Evince in Gnome, going back to KDE will still want Okular.

(Please note that example of Okular may be the incorrect one, but it's something similar to that).

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: Mountain ManKDE for some reason has the reputation of being a "bloated" desktop environment

KDE 4 had the same problem as early Gnome 3: it had bugs that affected performance, which led people to assume that it was too heavy for their machine, and it's got lots of options so it must be heavy, right? They fixed the bugs and KDE 5 is an entirely different beast to KDE 4, but once you've decided that something's a particular (and unappealing) way, it's very unusual for anyone to check it again.

Yeah, Gnome 3 and KDE 4 both were very much "We're not ready yet!" for the first few point releases, but distributions packaged and shipped them anyway...

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: slaapliedjeFun fact, Heretic II also got a commercial port on the Amiga.

Yep, for Hyperion Entertainment making Linux and Mac ports was always a side hustle, with the Amiga being their one true love.

Ha, for me the topic of building a Retro Linux computer would be to put together an old PPC mac and install Debian :P
Or you know, maybe try to put 68k Debian on my Amiga :)

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Fun fact, Heretic II also got a commercial port on the Amiga. https://www.hyperion-entertainment.com/index.php/games/heretic-ii It even supports 3D acceleration through Warp3D if you happen to have a Voodoo Card.

I should play it again one of these days (likely not on the Amiga, as mine with the Voodoo is rather temperamental.

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